On connaît très mal le clergé romain au XIVe siècle. Le pape était à sa tête à la fois comme évêque de Rome et chef de la chrétienté occidentale. Progressivement entre les XIe et XIIe siècles, s'était constitué le collège cardinalice. Au XIVe siècle, les cardinaux exerçaient des fonctions politiques et administratives pour le pape mais ne participaient plus guère à la vie religieuse de la ville. Le clergé des grandes basiliques et des principales églises paroissiales, constitué en confrérie, avait une attitude très défensive, en particulier contre les religieux mendiants qui ne purent s'imposer à Rome comme dans les autres villes. D'une manière générale, il semble que le jubilé toucha peu le clergé local qui se contenta de prendre acte de l'afflux des pèlerins étrangers.
Religious Anguish and Existential Anguish at the Turn of the Millenniums - The emphasis put on the years 1000 and 2000 leads to reflect upon the conception of time, upon the importance of controlling and measuring it in the Christian civilization. Whereas the passage from the first to the second millennium was a post eventum construction by an ecclesiastical historiography, the passage from the second to the third is constructed in the present, favored by the actual technological possibilities of measuring time and by the worldwide dissemination of information. In the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul II has marked the passage by proclaiming a Jubilee, in continuity with the centuries-old scansion invented in 1300 (later accelerated). Both passages are cultural constructions bearing a strong symbolic meaning : the first constructed by ideology and historiography, the second by ideology and technology.
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